The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) is planning to review four units of measure, including the crucial kilogram, at a meeting that's currently ongoing from October 16 to 20 ...

But now, for the first time since the international system of units (SI) was launched in 1960, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) is redefining four basic units of measurement ...

A new era of standardized measurements Armed with the power of universal constants, we can define what our units of measurement should be.

Radically, the answer from the International Bureau of Weights and Measures is to overhaul the definitions of a kilogram, as well as all the other basic units of measurement used in science (known ...

Currently, all seven of the basic units of measurement except the kilogram are based on constant values observed in nature. The kilogram is defined by a physical object called the International ...